Stories From America: America's Last Colony: 014-NS-LEP-Betty-Martin

Betty Martin sitting for her portrait in her room, explaining her personal history and the stigma of Hansen’s disease; she explains that her birth name was Edwina Parra, and changed her name to protect her family from the stigma of Leprosy. She was diagnosed with the disease in 1929 at the age of 19; the year she was incarcerated to the Louisiana Leper Home. She is the author of two books, "Miracle at Carville," published in 1951, and a sequel, "No One Must Ever Know," published in 1959.